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Also a lot of lifetime academics are generally insufferable. Hugely important vision of themselves, lack of knowledge of reality, and are totally useless if the
by seibelj 4y ago
Also a lot of lifetime academics are generally insufferable. Hugely important vision of themselves, lack of knowledge of reality, and are totally useless if they had to do a job outside of their hyper-specialized area.
I see a lot of value in hard-science / math research. Don’t see a lot of value in yet another 80 page treatise on Proust that only 8 people will ever read.
Hopefully everything gets priced so high that the vast amounts of money wasted on universities will be greatly reduced.
- privatdozent 4y agoHaha. Because math research is so widely read
- seibelj 4y ago
- achenet 4y agoWell some of it is used a LOT - for example all of digital technology is basically applied boolean algebra, and calculus is the base of physics. Granted, the original research for those was 200-400 years ago, but the current day applications are everywhere. So while a new research paper on some obscure subset of point-set topology may not appear to be useful today, it is possible that in the future it will be. :) EDIT: misread your comment as "widely used", not "widely read", my bad.